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carolina watchman weekly vol xx salisbury n c december [_, 1862 number :..) j j imu-ner editor am proprietor â€” ti â€” â€” i ill l____________m______________________m_i â€” _â€”____â€” â€” â€” lincoln's message as we are very sure that our readers 1 would not thank u for encumbering our ' columns with abe lincoln's message to lli v ankee congress we shall content ours if wiih publishing the ful lowing com ment on it by the richmond examiner *_<__. will imvc lhe reader a fair idea of u hat the mes.vig ia ; " 1'resideiil ofthe united states have presented lbe cuiigr___ofib.it eoun try with i weak messages before to day ', but certain ly uevei until now with one so weak s_i ulicawdld and so insufficient even lor thu ' purpose ol deception as that wliich bur dens our columns tins iiiurmng mr lin coln's brain appears i 0 iiuv dwindled un der lhe pressure of events ho cites al passage from his inaugural as oue which he cannot improve and judging from ' i lie rest ot his present performance it ap pears ins capacity ts now mi longer equal , lo the production veil ot that shallow j composition at winch lhe world wulldei ed eighteen mouths ago " lie memo ring lhe prodigious events of the si year aud tiie tremendous interests ot tue presenl llioittelll n _â€¢ one will rea i ' this slate paper without astonishment tin-it any man however ignorant and mi beetle could attempi an accoitut of the ac tual all urs and condition of the untied slates and yet say so little that the peo ple waul to 1-iio.v ami so much lliai is foolish paradoxical ami fantastic â€¢â€¢ i'lnu winch expectation demands be fore all olher things iu a statement uf hose great matters over which lhe presi dent oi united states exercises lawful eon trol and supervision is au account of die military events which have transpired du ring ihe interval of the year an exposition of tii â€¢ present slr.t s of war and sottit thing iike a prospect of its future hut of the war there is only a horrid bound of tilence in the message that ' peace has not returned and that all thev had tu do w;,s i press on and incidentally an illusion to certain reverses is the chief information ou liii absorbing subject af forded by lincoln to his congress next to the war what one iliosl naturally seeks nud hopes to find in this document is a view of the tiuances l.ut on this all-im portant tupic the message is worse than barren and less informing than even si lance would lie for that portion of ihe paper is evidently intended not as a source of intelligence but as a blind to the truth not content with muddling the figures uf ihe balance sheet of the united states so far as its receipts and expenditures ate presented at all the unpaid accounts of the country are fefl as completely out of view as if they did not exist while the de preciation uf the curreticv is not onlv it nored but denied with stupid impudence the public credit says lincoln has t_ceti fully maintained it is difficult to deeide whether such u declaration from an official chief to a public necessarily inf rul ed uu the condition of the national credit by ihe daily employment of its promises 10 pay in the common affairs of life should excite most of amazement or of indigna tion in a country where gold and silver are the constitutional standards of value the citizen who read the message the chief magistrate has onlv to turn his eve com the official page of the newspaper which contains it to the column present ing the daily report of the money market and he finds that the promise of the uni ted states to pay a hundred is only worth seventy dollars of real money such at tempts at deception are worse thai olum y and dull tiny are shameless and dis graceful yet their criminality is less re markable than their folly but while the message is empty of eve r thing else it is full of abolition of the extraordinary proclamation issm-d by abraham lincoln in september declaring all the slaves in the southern confederacy emancipated by his individual authority on tin first of next january lie says noth ing ; and his silence here is not less sig nificant than on the military events of the tear perhaps he himself has arrived at the idea that the said proclamation was aimply the unmeaning utterance of idiocy perhaps even a verbal justification of that direct contradiction to the instrument which makes the sole distinction between himself and any other private blaek^uard m the state of illinois is too much for his brain in its present enfeebled condition or the stomach of such auditors even as be h*i in the so called congress of the united states however that may be he says nothing at all of the great feature in tbat proclamation ur of its probable effect or eon-effect on the first of january but lie ttt.-rs at l.'iroo n e sol of i;..m i'ijs-satkii emancipation which in prom ised in the said nroclamstion to iro|iouiid at tin preset ii of this wonderful pro ject which rea is like a chapter fioin the â– memoiraol martin us scri merits and which ' ft nothing else would do it will l the free passport of its author 16 lhe paradise ol fools wn propose to say little li is quite sufficient unto itself nor is it ne-j cessarv to give more examination to the i prodigy of logic by width lhe president it tin united states satisfies his yankees thai is easier to pay .. large debt titan a small one they nil sprung from their j two traditional brothers cast up naked j from the sea who swapped jackdiuive till eaeli gained i suit of clothes h house and a horse to hool : and they will no doubt understand withou difficulty how coins ieiisiit.(l emancipation will be not only ' cheap but exceedingly , to i able both tol the north and to the south the pro s <>'-- by which it is proven that the disso lution of th united stales ia physical in possible because navigable rivers can be bridged and geographical boundaries stepp.-d over m-ed only be remarked as a i marvel f ignorance nnd silliness the force ot folly can no farther go has the successor ol washington itc ver seen a map of europe . or a chart of nortli american can he fin ! any olher boundaries than i geographical lines or rivers that can he i bridged or mountains full of passes be i twee spain and portugal austria and i prus-da france and belgium canada and th united suites - ve tln self evident absurdity ol ins physical impossibilities 1 ! must i less gratifying to thu representa tives of new england and pennsylvania than the revelation thai his own north w.-st is the true and only united states of america while lhe other sections are onlv ma i gins hut this monstrous mass of nonsense of which the chief of hayti or the presi : dent of liberia would be ashamed is too j dull li n further examination wiihout wea riness oue point lnnvever.il contains i wliich will produce some sensation am j may furnish some smuseiueiit it is the i comparative view which it affords of the r.-at con federate ignis fatuus foreign nturveiit t appears then from lin coln's message that while llu government at richmond has been hopefully negotiat ing in europe the recognition ofthe con federacy as h sovereign power calculating ' on foreign intervention in its behalf pre 1 dieting it from time to time confident that a would come at the end of sixty days : waning always and wondering in itself at â– the delay and speculating on he causes of â– the strange prociastiiiatiuii the govern ment at washington has be_n negotiating for something too in tin self same quar ter lincoln and his cabinet have been [ equally certain of their success equally confident that it would come in a stated lime ami not i ' astonished at the non gratitieatioii of their hop what is that j something nothing less than a'with j draws by the martimt powers of tlmt re , cognition as a belligerent 1 which they un wise nml unnecessarily accorded lo th : southern confederacy iu the beginning f our domestic difficulties abraham sew aid and chase were quite contident,in last june that europe would lor lb with cease to recognize ihe south us a fighting power , and that on the loss of that important dis â€¢ tinclion ami privilege she would at once i lay down ber arms in despair and so end the war uul the temporary reverses 1 quoth abe which afterwards bejel the na \ tional arms and which were exaggerated iiy onr own disloyal citizens abroad have â– hitherto delayed tliat act of simple justice the spirit of southern women â€” a friend says the columbia south caroli . hitiii on a committee to collect the names : ot non-com hat an la in charleston in anti ! ci nation of their removal informs us that i many of tin women positively refuse to i . i j leave the city under anv circumstances de claring thai they can carry powder water it lo lhe troops and are determined to remain during a bombardment one ven erable lady of sixty said she would prefer that general 1 sean regard should send her a musket instead ot an order to leave as she could use it ami would not then bo a nou combatant why mccldlan did not advance after the battle of sharpsburg or antietam aa it l calleil in the northern journals is fully ex plained by a washington correspondent of the chicago times who suites that that bat tle had 80 crippled general mcclellan that he could not move lor the want of troops a ml this battle was the one tbat was claimed as a great federal victory i the reparations of the united stales to subjugate lhe smith arc now trnlv gi , ganlic in the east am the weal and i the north on hmd and water everywhere i ami on all sides afar tlie movements of the federal armies and fleets indicate a zeal a hope a fanaticism a desperate avid ity that should banish from every south : erner's mind all thought nf.au early p'-aoe : and nerve every lotal southern hand for 11 battle in which ihere will l.e mi quarter northern virginia is again overrun richmond petersburg weldon charles ton and mobile are once inure threatened ; i oast of texas undefended lies hr-lji less iml bleeding at iln njerev and in lhe ' power of the em-iiiv ; fo . aro l_d_-g pre i pared in missouri and kansas for the in vasion oi arkansas the communication between the w,st ami richmond is men aced a i chattanooga and cnoxville nud lhe mississippi nil us tribti arics are bus tling wiih gunboats lor operations as soon ' as t he hoods come it these movements acini or threaten lied which have w most lo fear rich j nn i is menaced first of al ; it is a vital 'â– point but it will be defended wilh as j much energy by the conf.d_._oy as ii can i b attacked by the united sfotes charles ton it is hoped is now impregnable ami the other points n n the e.usst are in any vent of secondary importance nu._vil \ and chattanooga are not lh danger the destruction ot lbe railroad tit these points would be a heavy blow it the co ii fed era c : but their possession would l.e a disas ter almost as great to i n enemy win cull id not subsist an army at eitbei place w est ot the mississippi general holmes and the swamps forests and bay oils ol i arkansas will hold the nvader at bay â– there will be no general engagement in middle tennessee nashville might have been taken al any time afer gen i reck iuridge arrived at murfreesboro until the reinforcement of the garrisln after lirag^'s retreat or rather flight f|,,in kentucky j ii is the opinion ol intelligent gentlemen j who were in the cily that a peremptory demand for its surrender within that time | would have been obeyed by the federal j general commanding since almost the , whole of the army lately commanded bv i general buell and before which general bragg abandoned kentucky is in nash '. ville or its vicinity it is nut probable that ' ur generals have thought of an attack â€” expectations ol an engagement near mur freesboro are based upon tin idea enter tained of rosencrans enterprise and the belief that public sentiment in the north will force him even if reluctant to give us j battle at whatever point we mav wait for him put be knows we cannot attack him and be does not intend tu engage our for ces he could accomplish nothing by it if he were to engage our army at tulla j homa the chances of victory would be agajust him and at the most he coul i on j ly drive the southern troops back into the â– mountain passes that guard the railroad ' where thev could defy him check his pro gress ami rub him of all the fruits of tbe campaign his strategy does not look to the southeast but to life southwest â€” not ; to tullahoma and chattanooga but lo i : vicksburg and the mississippi den negley held nashville for months for the yankees with less than six thous and men ; and rosencrans will uol pro ' bablv leave a large garrison for its defense ml o o subsequent to bis departure for mississippi seeing that our forces will necessarily fol low him unless they shall anticipate his movements and thwart them or precede him the probability is iliat in less than thirty days the warm rains lately falling in that quarter will rive water for their gun t_3 r boats in every navigable stream iu the west and with these he hopes to hold j nashville on the mississippi the mightiest ener gies of the abolition power iu the west are to be concentrated for a final struggle all other movements except that against richmond are but feints or secondary to this and rosencrans amusing lhe con federates with heavy skirmishing in front and demonstrations oil their flank and threatening knoxville with general <>. w morgan bum louisville is only massing his men in a proper position to enable him when the hour comes to move past frank lin and columbia to the tennessee river at or below florence crossing which on bridges prepared by general rant the forces of lbe two abolition commanders will bo united when they hope to over whelm i'emberton and i'rice capture v icksburg at:d every fortiti..*d point on the river which wil be covered with their gun boats and from this base line direct iheir course westward aud southward matters out west look dark enough ; bet oue redeeming feature and encourag ing fact is certainly to be found in a view of the fidd general johnston is in m iiinnd ofthe army and in iniii th nm uy has confidence â€” confidence in his in tegrity in his capacity in his firmness and decision of character in his generalship in fortune nnd however gloomy the period j at which he tilers on duty his name will i carry faith and i ope to all â€” richmond kx'.ijntiier homespun in virginia and in other parts of the south ii is becoming fashionable for peo ple lo have some pÂ»rt if nol all of llieir garb ot home ma.le stufl's it is the kind ot independence we j ( . t observe and hall il ns ib si omen of a true south finer to see him buying and wearing the clotll woven on onr own looms by our own fair ami industiious women this war has demonstrated one thing and that is that ouf women can weave ju-t as good cloth as ji lover of he soiitji would wish to wear in a recent visit through the interior ol irginia the writer had frequent occasion to admire lhe industry of the ladies in man ufacturing home spun the taste wilh which they were made up and the grace wilh which they were worn by some of the musl charming daughters of tin < id dominion in some j iris of the state there is quite an emulation among tin ladies in ihe manu facture of domestic cloths the wiiter had iln pleasure ol seeing some specimens of home spun made by a most patriotic ami a up.pli.died lady of albemarle mrs elson of uowardsvill â€” which he thinks might take tin premium for taste s well as patriotic enterprise over all the silks and satin of tin l.ichmoiid speculators it is said that during the eiubar _> un d.r the administration of mr madison the richest and tinost ladies in the country vied with each other who could produce tbe handsomest homespun dresses old pieces of silk were picked carded spun wove and made into dresses many of them equal led iln finest silks and cambrics fourth of july celebration were held where bulb ladies ami gentlemen were all dressed in homespun may we not hope that these happy days of purity nnd virtue have nut past i we notice that many papers iu the south have entered tin hsis in favour oi bom spun and olher industrial enterprises of our ladies the southern sparta louisiana ban ner tvs that nearly every family in lhe parish are spinning and weaving tlieir own winter clothing families who twelve months ago bought all their kerseys and jean are tinning out a prettier and iiore substantial article at home nearly every pai lour iii the country is j grac.-d with a " georgia piano and its i merry notes can be heard from early dawn ! till dusk if the blockade prevents the ladies from donning silks they can manu facture their own coltun stripes and do ! not blush to be seen wearing them the clarksville chronicle says : we saw a happy illustration a night or two since ol tin patriotism of sume of onr i voiing holies in dressing in homespun and discarding those expensive appendages â€” i hoops thev were shown of to decided ' advantage in lln-ir republican garb the editor advises all his lady friends unless ; ihey are rather emaciated io adopt it there is no dress more becoming our voting ladies in these war times than the ; above ihey may prefer silks and satins i delaines and merinoes and rig themselves off ill jeweli v like an indian squaw â€” but give us the girl in tho calico dress or what is better homespun all honor and praise to the fair son hern women ! may lhe future historian when be comes lo write of this war fail nut to award tbem i their due share of praise fur their noble ef j forts iu helping us to achieve southern ! freedom and southern independence richmond exam uur i ihere are no times for sells m prac i tical jokes on matters affecting ibe best in terests ofthe countiy and the parties in dulging in them ought to be exposed ami if hot otherwise punished at least they ought to be held up to public reprobation a case in point is the alleged discovery uf an inexhaustible supply uf salt ai < ipelika alabama who started that miserable witless and contemptible humbug who was governor pickens telegraphic corres pondent promising to supply the whole state of south caroiino with salt from this source at five dallars a bushel d liv ered at augusta . these things ought to be found out again we say these are no times for indulgence in such things nor are such things matters to be trifled with at any time â€” daily journal lo the poor eoro the cairo correspondent ofthe cbitftgo journal an abolition paper thus declares the deplorable condition of about one thous and negroes that have either runaway or been stolen by the abolition armv and sen to tbat place he says the fugitives are placed in the empty barrack buildings more open than manv northern bams with no place for fire and with no wood to make a fire of hal naked and bar-fooled women and chil dren may be seen a half mile a way pick ing up bits of bark chips or stray bits ,,-' wood to cook th.ir rat ions with oi to kee warmth in their shivering frames sonc hyrvc carried din into their shanties form nig rude hearths on which a few embers can be placed the smoke escaping into tin building and almost blinding in its destiny water is carried from lhe river distant from a half to three quarters of a mile of course there are no facilities for wash nig or other household work many of them are sick and others have died from exposure mothers from five to eight children sit from day to day in those drea ry cold buildings trying to hold on to warmth and life by meanr of personal con lad and the few rags they brought from the land ol their captivity how tbey pass these cold nights od only knows as thev have no bedding worthy the name thus they are dragging along in utter wretch edness and suffering more than pen can express such is northern sympathy for the ne gro it should be the duty of masters in exposed situations who can not better pro vide for the safety of tlieir servants at least to warn them of the consequences of fall ing into the hands of the yankess an affair with the enemy near snickers ville we learn that on last saturday even ing an affair of some interest took place with the enemy in the neighborhood of snickersville it appears that on that por tion of our lines the pickets of the mary land cavalry under major white were driven in by a force ofthe enemy movino from the direction of aidie being a por tion of the brigade commanded by the somewhat notorious percy wyndha the enemy followed into our camp and were plundering it when they were charged by the twelfth virginia a sharp fight ensued in which we lost some seven or eiltht killed and fifteen or twenty prisoners the loss ofthe enemy is said to have been equivalent to our own general jones having come up with reinforcements the enemy was driven across the shenandoah and tlie blue ridge through the gap by which he had entered general jones is in command in the lower portion of the valley to tbe great satisfaction of the people in that section we.are glad to know that ofthe recent appoinftneiits in general jackson's army one at least gives testimony of well deser ved promotion and future usefulness rich examiner tired of the war a special cor res - pandent of tlie chicago times writing irom bolivar tennessee states that the federal troops received the news of dem ocratic victories with the highest gratifi cation the jov was not confined to dem ocrats but the republican soldiers largely participated in it the truth is says the writer that nine tenths of the army want peace were peace declared today their shouts would fairly rend the heavens and those shouts would warm the pulses of tens of thousands of loved ones at home the same writer says that another thing is creating much dissatisfaction among the troops is that " tbey receive no pay promotion in the army â€” tbe presi ' dent can never do justice to the army or , the cause in his military promotions and appointments until he acts upon the na poleonic idea of making merit as displayed by actual deeds the basis of both it is a bad sign when men rub tlieir eyes with wonder and ask themselves what in the mime of mars has this man done to de serve to be made a brigadier or a major general president davis has provoked this question frequently of late aud we hear of some prospective promotions which will increase the wonder and reiterate the query â€” mobile register way side hospital â€” we are glad to learn that dr warren aided by the ladies of raleigh has put the way side hospit al near the central depot in operation â€” the sick wounded and hungry soldier will henceforth we hope find comfortable quarters near at hand on his arrival here a c standard

carolina watchman weekly vol xx salisbury n c december [_, 1862 number :..) j j imu-ner editor am proprietor â€” ti â€” â€” i ill l____________m______________________m_i â€” _â€”____â€” â€” â€” lincoln's message as we are very sure that our readers 1 would not thank u for encumbering our ' columns with abe lincoln's message to lli v ankee congress we shall content ours if wiih publishing the ful lowing com ment on it by the richmond examiner *_'-- by which it is proven that the disso lution of th united stales ia physical in possible because navigable rivers can be bridged and geographical boundaries stepp.-d over m-ed only be remarked as a i marvel f ignorance nnd silliness the force ot folly can no farther go has the successor ol washington itc ver seen a map of europe . or a chart of nortli american can he fin ! any olher boundaries than i geographical lines or rivers that can he i bridged or mountains full of passes be i twee spain and portugal austria and i prus-da france and belgium canada and th united suites - ve tln self evident absurdity ol ins physical impossibilities 1 ! must i less gratifying to thu representa tives of new england and pennsylvania than the revelation thai his own north w.-st is the true and only united states of america while lhe other sections are onlv ma i gins hut this monstrous mass of nonsense of which the chief of hayti or the presi : dent of liberia would be ashamed is too j dull li n further examination wiihout wea riness oue point lnnvever.il contains i wliich will produce some sensation am j may furnish some smuseiueiit it is the i comparative view which it affords of the r.-at con federate ignis fatuus foreign nturveiit t appears then from lin coln's message that while llu government at richmond has been hopefully negotiat ing in europe the recognition ofthe con federacy as h sovereign power calculating ' on foreign intervention in its behalf pre 1 dieting it from time to time confident that a would come at the end of sixty days : waning always and wondering in itself at â– the delay and speculating on he causes of â– the strange prociastiiiatiuii the govern ment at washington has be_n negotiating for something too in tin self same quar ter lincoln and his cabinet have been [ equally certain of their success equally confident that it would come in a stated lime ami not i ' astonished at the non gratitieatioii of their hop what is that j something nothing less than a'with j draws by the martimt powers of tlmt re , cognition as a belligerent 1 which they un wise nml unnecessarily accorded lo th : southern confederacy iu the beginning f our domestic difficulties abraham sew aid and chase were quite contident,in last june that europe would lor lb with cease to recognize ihe south us a fighting power , and that on the loss of that important dis â€¢ tinclion ami privilege she would at once i lay down ber arms in despair and so end the war uul the temporary reverses 1 quoth abe which afterwards bejel the na \ tional arms and which were exaggerated iiy onr own disloyal citizens abroad have â– hitherto delayed tliat act of simple justice the spirit of southern women â€” a friend says the columbia south caroli . hitiii on a committee to collect the names : ot non-com hat an la in charleston in anti ! ci nation of their removal informs us that i many of tin women positively refuse to i . i j leave the city under anv circumstances de claring thai they can carry powder water it lo lhe troops and are determined to remain during a bombardment one ven erable lady of sixty said she would prefer that general 1 sean regard should send her a musket instead ot an order to leave as she could use it ami would not then bo a nou combatant why mccldlan did not advance after the battle of sharpsburg or antietam aa it l calleil in the northern journals is fully ex plained by a washington correspondent of the chicago times who suites that that bat tle had 80 crippled general mcclellan that he could not move lor the want of troops a ml this battle was the one tbat was claimed as a great federal victory i the reparations of the united stales to subjugate lhe smith arc now trnlv gi , ganlic in the east am the weal and i the north on hmd and water everywhere i ami on all sides afar tlie movements of the federal armies and fleets indicate a zeal a hope a fanaticism a desperate avid ity that should banish from every south : erner's mind all thought nf.au early p'-aoe : and nerve every lotal southern hand for 11 battle in which ihere will l.e mi quarter northern virginia is again overrun richmond petersburg weldon charles ton and mobile are once inure threatened ; i oast of texas undefended lies hr-lji less iml bleeding at iln njerev and in lhe ' power of the em-iiiv ; fo . aro l_d_-g pre i pared in missouri and kansas for the in vasion oi arkansas the communication between the w,st ami richmond is men aced a i chattanooga and cnoxville nud lhe mississippi nil us tribti arics are bus tling wiih gunboats lor operations as soon ' as t he hoods come it these movements acini or threaten lied which have w most lo fear rich j nn i is menaced first of al ; it is a vital 'â– point but it will be defended wilh as j much energy by the conf.d_._oy as ii can i b attacked by the united sfotes charles ton it is hoped is now impregnable ami the other points n n the e.usst are in any vent of secondary importance nu._vil \ and chattanooga are not lh danger the destruction ot lbe railroad tit these points would be a heavy blow it the co ii fed era c : but their possession would l.e a disas ter almost as great to i n enemy win cull id not subsist an army at eitbei place w est ot the mississippi general holmes and the swamps forests and bay oils ol i arkansas will hold the nvader at bay â– there will be no general engagement in middle tennessee nashville might have been taken al any time afer gen i reck iuridge arrived at murfreesboro until the reinforcement of the garrisln after lirag^'s retreat or rather flight f|,,in kentucky j ii is the opinion ol intelligent gentlemen j who were in the cily that a peremptory demand for its surrender within that time | would have been obeyed by the federal j general commanding since almost the , whole of the army lately commanded bv i general buell and before which general bragg abandoned kentucky is in nash '. ville or its vicinity it is nut probable that ' ur generals have thought of an attack â€” expectations ol an engagement near mur freesboro are based upon tin idea enter tained of rosencrans enterprise and the belief that public sentiment in the north will force him even if reluctant to give us j battle at whatever point we mav wait for him put be knows we cannot attack him and be does not intend tu engage our for ces he could accomplish nothing by it if he were to engage our army at tulla j homa the chances of victory would be agajust him and at the most he coul i on j ly drive the southern troops back into the â– mountain passes that guard the railroad ' where thev could defy him check his pro gress ami rub him of all the fruits of tbe campaign his strategy does not look to the southeast but to life southwest â€” not ; to tullahoma and chattanooga but lo i : vicksburg and the mississippi den negley held nashville for months for the yankees with less than six thous and men ; and rosencrans will uol pro ' bablv leave a large garrison for its defense ml o o subsequent to bis departure for mississippi seeing that our forces will necessarily fol low him unless they shall anticipate his movements and thwart them or precede him the probability is iliat in less than thirty days the warm rains lately falling in that quarter will rive water for their gun t_3 r boats in every navigable stream iu the west and with these he hopes to hold j nashville on the mississippi the mightiest ener gies of the abolition power iu the west are to be concentrated for a final struggle all other movements except that against richmond are but feints or secondary to this and rosencrans amusing lhe con federates with heavy skirmishing in front and demonstrations oil their flank and threatening knoxville with general <>. w morgan bum louisville is only massing his men in a proper position to enable him when the hour comes to move past frank lin and columbia to the tennessee river at or below florence crossing which on bridges prepared by general rant the forces of lbe two abolition commanders will bo united when they hope to over whelm i'emberton and i'rice capture v icksburg at:d every fortiti..*d point on the river which wil be covered with their gun boats and from this base line direct iheir course westward aud southward matters out west look dark enough ; bet oue redeeming feature and encourag ing fact is certainly to be found in a view of the fidd general johnston is in m iiinnd ofthe army and in iniii th nm uy has confidence â€” confidence in his in tegrity in his capacity in his firmness and decision of character in his generalship in fortune nnd however gloomy the period j at which he tilers on duty his name will i carry faith and i ope to all â€” richmond kx'.ijntiier homespun in virginia and in other parts of the south ii is becoming fashionable for peo ple lo have some pÂ»rt if nol all of llieir garb ot home ma.le stufl's it is the kind ot independence we j ( . t observe and hall il ns ib si omen of a true south finer to see him buying and wearing the clotll woven on onr own looms by our own fair ami industiious women this war has demonstrated one thing and that is that ouf women can weave ju-t as good cloth as ji lover of he soiitji would wish to wear in a recent visit through the interior ol irginia the writer had frequent occasion to admire lhe industry of the ladies in man ufacturing home spun the taste wilh which they were made up and the grace wilh which they were worn by some of the musl charming daughters of tin < id dominion in some j iris of the state there is quite an emulation among tin ladies in ihe manu facture of domestic cloths the wiiter had iln pleasure ol seeing some specimens of home spun made by a most patriotic ami a up.pli.died lady of albemarle mrs elson of uowardsvill â€” which he thinks might take tin premium for taste s well as patriotic enterprise over all the silks and satin of tin l.ichmoiid speculators it is said that during the eiubar _> un d.r the administration of mr madison the richest and tinost ladies in the country vied with each other who could produce tbe handsomest homespun dresses old pieces of silk were picked carded spun wove and made into dresses many of them equal led iln finest silks and cambrics fourth of july celebration were held where bulb ladies ami gentlemen were all dressed in homespun may we not hope that these happy days of purity nnd virtue have nut past i we notice that many papers iu the south have entered tin hsis in favour oi bom spun and olher industrial enterprises of our ladies the southern sparta louisiana ban ner tvs that nearly every family in lhe parish are spinning and weaving tlieir own winter clothing families who twelve months ago bought all their kerseys and jean are tinning out a prettier and iiore substantial article at home nearly every pai lour iii the country is j grac.-d with a " georgia piano and its i merry notes can be heard from early dawn ! till dusk if the blockade prevents the ladies from donning silks they can manu facture their own coltun stripes and do ! not blush to be seen wearing them the clarksville chronicle says : we saw a happy illustration a night or two since ol tin patriotism of sume of onr i voiing holies in dressing in homespun and discarding those expensive appendages â€” i hoops thev were shown of to decided ' advantage in lln-ir republican garb the editor advises all his lady friends unless ; ihey are rather emaciated io adopt it there is no dress more becoming our voting ladies in these war times than the ; above ihey may prefer silks and satins i delaines and merinoes and rig themselves off ill jeweli v like an indian squaw â€” but give us the girl in tho calico dress or what is better homespun all honor and praise to the fair son hern women ! may lhe future historian when be comes lo write of this war fail nut to award tbem i their due share of praise fur their noble ef j forts iu helping us to achieve southern ! freedom and southern independence richmond exam uur i ihere are no times for sells m prac i tical jokes on matters affecting ibe best in terests ofthe countiy and the parties in dulging in them ought to be exposed ami if hot otherwise punished at least they ought to be held up to public reprobation a case in point is the alleged discovery uf an inexhaustible supply uf salt ai < ipelika alabama who started that miserable witless and contemptible humbug who was governor pickens telegraphic corres pondent promising to supply the whole state of south caroiino with salt from this source at five dallars a bushel d liv ered at augusta . these things ought to be found out again we say these are no times for indulgence in such things nor are such things matters to be trifled with at any time â€” daily journal lo the poor eoro the cairo correspondent ofthe cbitftgo journal an abolition paper thus declares the deplorable condition of about one thous and negroes that have either runaway or been stolen by the abolition armv and sen to tbat place he says the fugitives are placed in the empty barrack buildings more open than manv northern bams with no place for fire and with no wood to make a fire of hal naked and bar-fooled women and chil dren may be seen a half mile a way pick ing up bits of bark chips or stray bits ,,-' wood to cook th.ir rat ions with oi to kee warmth in their shivering frames sonc hyrvc carried din into their shanties form nig rude hearths on which a few embers can be placed the smoke escaping into tin building and almost blinding in its destiny water is carried from lhe river distant from a half to three quarters of a mile of course there are no facilities for wash nig or other household work many of them are sick and others have died from exposure mothers from five to eight children sit from day to day in those drea ry cold buildings trying to hold on to warmth and life by meanr of personal con lad and the few rags they brought from the land ol their captivity how tbey pass these cold nights od only knows as thev have no bedding worthy the name thus they are dragging along in utter wretch edness and suffering more than pen can express such is northern sympathy for the ne gro it should be the duty of masters in exposed situations who can not better pro vide for the safety of tlieir servants at least to warn them of the consequences of fall ing into the hands of the yankess an affair with the enemy near snickers ville we learn that on last saturday even ing an affair of some interest took place with the enemy in the neighborhood of snickersville it appears that on that por tion of our lines the pickets of the mary land cavalry under major white were driven in by a force ofthe enemy movino from the direction of aidie being a por tion of the brigade commanded by the somewhat notorious percy wyndha the enemy followed into our camp and were plundering it when they were charged by the twelfth virginia a sharp fight ensued in which we lost some seven or eiltht killed and fifteen or twenty prisoners the loss ofthe enemy is said to have been equivalent to our own general jones having come up with reinforcements the enemy was driven across the shenandoah and tlie blue ridge through the gap by which he had entered general jones is in command in the lower portion of the valley to tbe great satisfaction of the people in that section we.are glad to know that ofthe recent appoinftneiits in general jackson's army one at least gives testimony of well deser ved promotion and future usefulness rich examiner tired of the war a special cor res - pandent of tlie chicago times writing irom bolivar tennessee states that the federal troops received the news of dem ocratic victories with the highest gratifi cation the jov was not confined to dem ocrats but the republican soldiers largely participated in it the truth is says the writer that nine tenths of the army want peace were peace declared today their shouts would fairly rend the heavens and those shouts would warm the pulses of tens of thousands of loved ones at home the same writer says that another thing is creating much dissatisfaction among the troops is that " tbey receive no pay promotion in the army â€” tbe presi ' dent can never do justice to the army or , the cause in his military promotions and appointments until he acts upon the na poleonic idea of making merit as displayed by actual deeds the basis of both it is a bad sign when men rub tlieir eyes with wonder and ask themselves what in the mime of mars has this man done to de serve to be made a brigadier or a major general president davis has provoked this question frequently of late aud we hear of some prospective promotions which will increase the wonder and reiterate the query â€” mobile register way side hospital â€” we are glad to learn that dr warren aided by the ladies of raleigh has put the way side hospit al near the central depot in operation â€” the sick wounded and hungry soldier will henceforth we hope find comfortable quarters near at hand on his arrival here a c standard